Hairpin



Patented- Jan. '1, 1930' p uNiTEo STATES PATENT OFFICE;

v HAROLDT. AUSTIN; OF LAWRENGE MA SSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE HUMP HAIRPIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLI-. NOIS, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA nantrm Application filed October 1, 1926. Serial No. 139,001.

This invention relates to improvements in hair pins, or hair ornaments especially useful with bobbed hair, to hold together the locks which-fall down on each side of the face.

The purpose of this is to hold these together and to hold them back away from the eyes. The desirable features are, facility of handling and certainty of keeping in position after being put in place.

As these'pins should be almost invisible and are generally formed of two legs confication.

nected by a loop they are diificult to handle unless especially made so that the two legs can be easily separated while the pin is bein ut in place. i

y hair pin is made of spring material and the adjoining faces of the legs are pref- 'erably fiat so that they can come close together and will have a relatively large fric- In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a side elevation .of my preferred type of hairpin.

Fig. 2 is a view from the top of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modification. Fig. 5 is a top view of Fig. 4..

Fig. 6 is a side elevation of another modification.

Fig. 7 is an" elevation from the left of Fig. 6. I a Fig. 8 is a sideelevation of another modi- Fig. 9 is an end view of Fig.8. Fig. 10 is a side elevation of another modi fication v Fig. 11 is a side elevation of another modification.

in Fig. '1, e resent. a' hair pi while,

by forming one B indicates the index finger of one hand and G and D the index finger and thumb of the other hand, which would ordinarily be the left.

The fiat spring material of which it is made has greater width than thickness and the pin consists of two legs 18 and 17 connected by a loop 10, the flat faces of the legs being opposite each other. i.

One .leg 18 has an outwardly extending angular bend 14 near its middle and the other leg 17 is substantially straight having a tip 12 which extends befyond the tip 13 of bent leg The parts 0 loop 10 to the bend 14, indicated by 11 and the legs from the 15 are-out of contact, but from the bend '14 to the tips they are normally in contact as shown in Fig. 3. p

At F in Figs. 4 and 5, I show a modification in which the tips 33 and 32 of the legs 38 and 37 are not offset but coincide in length while the bend 34 is curved instead of angular, the part of the legs between 35 and 31, at the end of bend 34,' to loop 30 being out of contact. Both legs taper laterally from the loop 30 to the tips 32 and 33.

In Fig. 6 I show a construction of pin G in which two legs 48 and 47 as well as the loo 40 are made of half round spring metal wit theflat faces opposite each other having the tips 43 and 42 ofi'set, and'a curved bend 44, the adjoining faces of legs 48 and 47 being substantially in contact from the points 45 and 41 at the end of loop 40, down to the tips, except where the bend 44 comes In Fig. 8 I showa hair pin H having the r adjoinin faces opposite each other and an [angular-hend 54 with the tip 52 ofi'set from.

the tip 53- and most of the adjoining faces. from the ends 55 and 51 of loop 50 being in contact.

' The idea is that the pin can the bend as by the right index finger, and in the constructlon' shown insFigs. 1, 2, 6 and 8,

the protrudingpart of the longer ti can be asped by the thumb and finger of t e other and, or merely by the finger nail, so that the legs can beseparated' and held apart by the two legs 58 and7 of flat spring metal with the elongated i be grasped at insertion of the index finger under the bend until the hair pin is in place in the hair.

However in the construction where the tips v of the legs are not offset the index finger can be poked in under the bend and nothing more is necessary.

, In'Fi'g. 10, I show a hairpin K having the two legs 68 and 67 of flat spring metal with adjoining faces opposite each other and on leg 68 two outwardly extending bends 64 and 66 with the tips 63 and 62 offset and the adjoining faces from the ends 65 and 61 of and thumb of the'other hand.

In Fig-11 I show a hairpin L having two legs 78 and 77 of flat spring metal with the a jo ining faces from the tips 73 and 72 to a substantlal extent being opposite and in contact with eachother, and having the two curved outwardly extending, oppositely disposed bends 74 and 76, between which and the points 75 and 71 at the inner end of loop 70 t e legs are also in contact. With such construction the bend 74 can be grasped by the finger of one hand and the bend 76 by the finger of the other hand.

I claim:

1. A hair pin'made of flat s ring material having greater width than t ickness, consisting of two legs connected by a loop and having flatfaces opposite each other, one leg having an outwardly extending bend near its middle, and the other leg being substantially straight and having a tip which extends be- 0nd the ti of the .bent leg, the part of the egs from t e loop to the bend being out of eontact, and from the bend to the tips being in contact.

2. A hairpin made of fiat spring material,

and havin a tip which extends beyond the tip of the ent leg. i

3. A hair pin made of flat s ring material having greater width than t ickness, con

having flat faces op osite each other which faces proximate their ends are normally in contact with each other, one leg having an outwardly extending bend near ,its middle, and the other leg being substantially straight.

6. A hairpin made of spring material having greater width than thickness, comprising two opposed legs, one leg of said hairpin being substantially straight and the other leg of which is crimped intermediate its length, said legs bein united by an integral connecting bend, the road faces of said opposed legs being in contact throughout a substantial part of their length. L

7. A hairpin made of spring material having greater width than thickness, comprising two opposed legs, one leg of said hairpin bein substantially straight and the other leg of w ich .is crimped intermediate its length, said legs being unite'dby an integral connecting bend, the broad faces ofsaid opposed legs bein in contact throughout the greater part of t eir length.

8. A hairpin made of spring material having greater width than thickness, comprising two opposed legs, one leg of said hairpin being substantially straightand the other leg of which is crimped intermediate its length, said legs being united by an integral connectingbend, the legs beyond the crimp being disposed with their broad faces in contact throughout the greater art of their len h.

-HARO D T. AUSTI sisting of two legs connected by a loop and having fiat faces opposite each other which faces proximate their ends are normally in contact-with each other, one leg havin an outwardly extending bend near its mi dle,

and the other leg. being substantially straight, the ti s of the legs bein ofiset.

4. hair pin made 0 flat spring material having greater width than thickness, con

sisting of two legs connected .by a loop and 

